Good afternoon. It's Friday the 15th of August
2025, just after 1:00 and welcome to UK Column News.
I'm your host, Mike Robinson. Joining me by videolink today
are journalists and peace campaigner Vanessa Bailey and
journalist Mark Anderson. Today, I'm going to be covering
more on the Online Safety Act in a moment.
Will Coleshill. We'll have the latest from the
Pallona Shimrani inquest. Vanessa's going to be reporting
on Iran and Syria and Lebanon. And Mark will be looking into,
well, amongst other things, neuro warfare.
But we're going to begin today with the Trump Putin meeting.
Because today, today is the Today is the day Trump and Putin
are to meet. Trump's just about to get on Air
Force One, apparently to fly to Alaska.
And while the hysteria only increases now, yesterday
Zelensky came to London for hugs.
They're there, Vlad. It'll be OK, said Starmer.
Apparently now at the time, Zelensky was doing at the at the
same time, rather, he was doing all he could to make sure that
the war continues. And as Ashton Rutanzi here is
reporting on X, Zelensky attacking Belgorod ahead of the
Trump Putin summit to provoke Russia into massive retaliation
and also making the point that they'd begun striking
residential buildings inside Russia in an attempt to provoke
a major retaliation before the Trump Putin summit.
So lots of that going on now. A couple of days ago, the
Russian Embassy in London put out a statement and it said
Russia has been and remains open to resolving the Ukrainian
conflict through political and diplomatic means.
At the same time, we must pursue A lasting and long term peace,
which can only be achieved by eradicating the root causes of
the crisis. Against this background, we note
the ongoing attempts by London and some of its partners to
disrupt a peace resolution of the conflict by eliminating its
root causes. And one of the root causes they
identify. To finish that quote, one of the
root causes they identify is Britain and rightly so.
And they're going to say in their statement, this is clearly
demonstrated by the statements and activity developed by the
British leadership in the run up to the Russian American summit
in Alaska. This policy once again confirms
the opportunistic approach of the European capitals which are
hoping to further use Ukraine as an anti Russian battering ram.
So, but let's come on to a comedy segment on today's news.
And because Britain has been pulling out all the stops to
keep the war going, as the Russians hint at here, including
sending the chief of the Defence staff, the vastly delusional Sir
Tony Ratigan, to Washington to speak to the Centre for
Strategic and International Studies.
For those of you who haven't made it through one of my
speeches before, he said, the gist is as follows.
We're in a more dangerous era, but Britain remains safe, NATO
is stronger, Russia is weak, and the West has the military and
economic and intellectual heft needed to buttress the global
system. And, you know, the question is,
what has he been smoking? Now I want to highlight four
points he made in his speech and get Vanessa and Mark's thoughts
on them. Maybe.
So. First, his claim that Britain
has good reason to be confident in the quality of our own armed
forces and intelligence services.
He said in the strength of our defence construct and the path
before us now is the right one. Second, he said NATO too should
be confident in the enormous overmatch we enjoy in Russia's
weakness and Putin, Putin's dilemma, and how that should
embolden our strategy of deterrence.
Third, he said the return of statecraft, how our leaders
prepared to use the military instrument alongside the other
levers of national power to advance our collective
interests. And the fourth point he made was
a point on technology and the need to retain our advantage,
especially with respect to artificial intelligence.
So, Vanessa, maybe if I could invite a comment from you first,
assuming you've stopped laughing at this point, what do you make
of that? What's your nonsense?
It's utterly delusional. I don't really know what else to
say. I mean, it's it's such hubris in
the face of what has been happening since the start of a
special military operation. I don't know.
I don't know if they think they're going to defeat Russia
with propaganda. That's about the best I can make
of that. Yeah, I mean, it is.
So it is so incredibly difficult now to comment on some of these
things that these guys are saying because they're
completely off their heads. But you know, while Ratigan was
deployed to wind up the US audience, former MI 6 head Sir
Alex Younger was deployed to the Radio for Today programme
yesterday to wind up the domestic audience.
So let's just have a brief listen to what he had to say.
I think we can isolate some facts nonetheless.
The first is that Steve Witkoff, Trump's envoy, is out of his
depth. He can talk, but he doesn't
listen. He doesn't write stuff down.
He didn't take an interpreter. So this deal, this oven ready
deal that he's presented, which apparently just requires Russian
signature, is a total fantasy. And that relates to the second
hard fact, which as I've seen absolutely nothing that
indicates that Putin is in any way prepared to change course
and resolve from his aim of total subjugation.
So it's, it's hard to be optimistic, even though of
course we desperately want a diplomatic solution.
The the risks are pretty high on the downside.
And the key things we need from these talks are twofold, one,
that Ukraine gets in the room, and two, that we double down on
the pressure we're putting on Putin, which is working.
We've been pretty hopeless our sort of vacillation and put
solemnity actually in some ways encourage Putin.
We've been living in La La land, but it's hard to overstate how
different that feels now. And of course, we Europe has
been excluded. And that's a problem as as it is
that Ukraine has been excluded. But I think they've organised to
tremendous effect to add consequence to both Putin and
Trump's actions. And I would go further.
And this is a bold statement and and it's possibly overreaching,
but I think we're getting to the point now where Europe can
actually effectively substitute for the tremendous contribution
the US has made. And that, of course, assumes
that Trump remains ready to sell weapons and to sustain the
intelligence fee. So the question is, what's The
upshot of all this nonsense rhetoric?
Well, according to the Financial Times here The upshot is
European Defence Union, Europe bills for war as arms factories
expand at triple speed is their headline.
Now Alex Younger may be saying that Europe needs United States
to maintain arms supplies or or at least arms sales, but Europe
seems to be working. At least the FT is saying that
work. Europe is working as hard as
they can to minimise the reliance on the United States
and to maximise the tax fair taxpayer funded profits which
could be made from the war machine.
To quote them a little bit here, Europe's weapons factories are
expanding at three times the rate of peacetime, stretching
over 7,000,000 square metres of new industrial development That
represents rearmament on a historic scale.
They're going to say the data shows that Europe's long
promised defence revival, driven by an injection of public
subsidies is being is beginning to materialise not just in
policy rhetoric or spending pledges, but also in concrete
and steel. And Vanessa, the longer this
progresses, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that this is
simply a rerun of the COVID scam.
So you create an enemy that doesn't really exist, because
make no mistake, at least in my opinion, Russia is not our enemy
unless we unless we make it 1:00 and then use the fear generated
to justify funnelling tax money into corporate interests,
whether those are Big Pharma in one case or the big war machine
in the other case. Do you think I'm wrong in that?
No. Absolutely not.
I would actually say that COVID was a continuation of the
previous war strategy because what has the West always done?
It's created the the boogeyman, whether it's had Saddam Hussein
or Muammar Gaddafi or President Assad of Syria, and then create
the fear factor that somehow they're threatening national
security in the EUUK or US since 911, of course.
So I, I think really it's just a continuation of the same
strategy that really took precedence after 911.
OK. Well, thank you for that.
Now let's come to you and well, Patrick on Wednesday was talking
a little bit about the potential for the growing conflict in in
Lebanon. But what's your thoughts on the
situation? Yeah, a lot of manoeuvring going
on, of course, with Saudi Arabia and Israel partnering with
Washington to try and disarm Hezbollah and other resistance
factions, not only Shia Muslim but Christian Sunni Muslim
resistance factions in Lebanon that have historically, of
course, supported Palestine and opposed the expansionism of
Israel. So first of all, let's have a
look at what's been going on more recently.
I know Pat alluded to this on Wednesday, a strategy of
surrender. Hezbollah condemns the Lebanese
cabinet decision on disarmament, where basically they were saying
that there should be a state monopoly on arms by the end of
the year. But however, we're not putting
any pressure on Israel to withdraw from the points that it
continues to occupy in southern Lebanon.
And of course, it continues, I think more than 4000 violations
now of the alleged ceasefire that came into effect in
November 2024. So this is quite interesting.
This was a poll that was carried out by the Lebanese Consultative
Centre for Studies and Documentation carried out
between the 27th of July and the 4th of August amongst 600
individuals from all different sects in Lebanon and it came up
with the results that the majority of Lebanese oppose
Hezbollah disarmament. This is in more depth.
Majority of the citizens opposed to disarmament of Hezbollah
without guaranteed National Defence strategy. 71.7% believe
that the Lebanese Armed Forces or the army is not capable of
confronting Israeli attacks alone, which is absolutely
correct. 76% believe that diplomatic relations will not
deter Israel and 58% are against disarmament with no alternative
strategy. They then raise the question of
the threat from the Takfiri forces of the so called new
Syria President Abu Mohammad Al Jalani or Ahmed Al Shahra as
he's known now in the West. So this was the result on the
questions raised regarding the threat from Syria. 73% see
events in Syria as an existential threat to Lebanon.
74% believe Syria threatens security and stability in
Lebanon. 68% fear that they could pave the way for a war by
armed groups against in Syria, against Lebanon.
And of course, this is very much in line with what I've been
talking about the the invasion of the north or the infiltration
of the north of Lebanon by the Takfiri elements from inside
Syria. Now I just want to run this
video. This was a video filmed on the
10th of August. So a few days ago now, there was
a a tragedy that hit the Lebanese armed forces.
Six soldiers died when Hezbollah had actually taken them to an A
Hezbollah arms depot for them to dismantle it.
What is interesting is here you see the Lebanese flag and you
see the Hezbollah resistance flag being flown alongside one
another. What is very important for
people to understand is that the Lebanese Armed Forces, for
example, a family in the South, one of their sons might go into
the army and the other might join Hezbollah, just to give you
an indication of how intertwined the army, the people and the
resistance basically are. And what is interesting, sorry,
just quickly about that story, no need to go back, is that
Israel actually warned the UNIFEL, the UN forces or, or
peacekeeping units not to go with the Lebanese army, which is
very unusual. And there were Israeli drones
overhead during the time that the army were investigating or
dismantling the Hezbollah weapons.
So speculation here is that Israel had something to do with
the attack in order to try and cause division between the army
and Hezbollah. Now I think this is important.
I want to look at the options for Lebanon.
I know touched on them, but I think in a little bit more
detail. So if we have a look at how I've
divided it down. So first of all, there is
potential of course for war in Lebanon against Israel that has
really only similar to some kind of low intensity.
Then of course there's the potential for the civil war that
is being created by particularly Saudi Arabia, but of course in
partnership with Israel and Washington.
But I think more importantly the intention is to actually destroy
the Lebanese Armed Forces or their capability to be a serious
Defence Force in the future to manufacture cetarian divide
within the army itself. Because fifty 5055% of the LAF
are Shia Muslim and forcing really the Lebanese army to
become nothing more than an internal security force very
poorly weaponized by the US that sponsors them.
And of course, then if that were to happen, the civil war
scenario, Geelani would potentially exploit the vacuum
created to, in inverted commas, protect the Sunni factions in
Lebanon from any of the civil war fallout.
And that, of course, would include invasion by his own
forces. Now for Hezbollah, the options
are that they can negotiate that potentially they become a
defensive force under the control of the government and
the army, which is very similar to what happened in Iraq.
And Barrack is basically saying, Tom Barrack, the the US envoy,
what he's effectively saying to the Lebanese people, of course,
is that we want you to die for Israel.
That is being very clearly understood by the majority of
people in Lebanon. And again, the latest statement
from Tom Barrack, the US will fully equip the Lebanese Armed
Forces to help them implement the decision to withdraw
weapons. I urge you to freeze that and
read it again to understand how utterly ridiculous that is.
And finally we have a video from someone that I think everyone
knows, journalist Madawa Osman, who's speaking from her
perspective, giving a message to the Lebanese people.
A great sin that serves Zionist Israel's interests.
This is not an exaggeration. It is an accurate reading of the
government acting under external DIC tats and at the expense of
Lebanon's security. Listen closely.
A parliamentary paper or a cabinet mammal cannot dismantle
A resistance that is woven into the fabric of our society.
Nor can it erase the memory of daily raids and air strikes that
have killed and displaced our people.
Pro resistance voices across Lebanon from the South to the
Bakar to Beirut have mobilised in the streets and ministers
aligned with resistance factions walked out in a protest during
the cabinet session. The ground reality is simple.
Legitimacy does not come from decrees, it comes from
protecting the people. So what will the resistance do?
Expect a sustained campaign of political delegitimization, mass
protests, parliamentary pressure, diplomatic appeals to
regional partners and a complete effort to obstruct any
implementation that hands our weapons to foreign designs.
This is a fight for Lebanon survival.
I think she said it very clearly there.
Yeah. Thank you, Vanessa.
Thank you very much for that. Now, let me welcome Mark to the
programme. Mark, what is neuro warfare?
Let's ask that question to begin with.
Well Mike, first of all, let me mention that I was listening to
some of the Red Pill conference, the one that recently happened
in Tulsa and there was 1 presentation that mentioned the
Five Brains initiative. And what what happened was I
started digging into the rabbit hole and I revived my
thetruthhound.com blog which has been kind of dormant for a while
and I came up with this article and this will help answer your
question. NATO linked fictional, so called
fictional war strategy scenario. This is the headline.
Sees the human mind, the human mind as the ultimate domain to
conquer. I'm moving on from there.
I'm just referencing the article here a little bit.
An independent French institute, among others that have done
these studies has produced a war game scenario that sees the
human mind itself as the next and perhaps most important
domain to conquer and occupy. I might add a particular study
put together by Herve Lee Gerdier, A researcher for the
National Higher School of Cognitive Science in Bordeaux,
France. He put his essay together
initially issued about five years ago, but it describes what
it calls a largely fictitious scenario and policy goals,
envisioning a time frame from 2018 to 2040.
So it's looking at all these extrapolations, and the
disturbing theme is the weaponization of neurosciences.
And we'll continue here. This is a picture of the
researcher, Mr. Lee Godier. I hope I'm saying his name,
right? And that's of course, the title
page to his study, Weaponization of Neurosciences.
And again, this particular study, he puts it in a quasi
fictional framework, saying some of this is real, but a lot of it
is just, you know, hypothetical and things like that.
Anyway, as I note in this slide, they also envision a summit,
2026 NATO summit transcending to traditional realms of land, sea
and air, cyberspace, outer space.
We now have the human mind as that 6th domain.
And all of this study and all of the think tank activity will
culminate in a, for now, fictional NATO summit that may
take place July 17th, 2020, sixth in Brussels, Belgium.
And the report suggest that is Mr Liguerdiere's report, or
essay they call it. It suggests that the summit will
be entitled The Human Mind, the 6th Domain of Operation.
And just for clarity, we'll show this slide, if, if you will,
what are those six domains, Air, land, sea, cyberspace, space,
and finally the human Mind. And now to get into the
mechanics of a little of this a little more or, or some of the
issues surrounding it as well. The Five Brains initiative,
we've all heard of the Five Eyes Intel Alliance, that's
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US Well, now all
this talk, some of it hypothetical, some of it not, is
the Five Brains initiative. It kind of parallels the Five
Eyes, although it's a little different in terms of its make
up five brains would be France, Germany, Japan, Norway and the
US. But apparently that initiative
is becoming a reality. And in the executive summary of
that French report, it says while while it has been said
that everything can be weaponized, neurosciences and
more broadly speaking NBIC or nanotechnology, biotechnology,
info technology and cognitive sciences are clearly providing
state and non state actors with some true name changers.
That's the executive summary of that French report and some
other things. And this is where it gets really
interesting. On pages four and five of that
report, one of the eight scientific objectives of
neuroscience weaponization research is to recognise fake
news or fake news recognition. That's on pages four and five.
Page 5, it notes the risks that social media may pose to Liberal
Democratic systems and that social media gives users the
power to spread and receive what is called contaminated
information. And on page 9 of that report by
the French researcher, it asked the question, what would trigger
article five, among other things, adversaries such as fake
news, factories prompting aid, anti NATO activities.
And what's really jumping out at me, Mike, on this before we look
at a few more slides, is that as they move the chess pieces, as
they move this stuff from hypothetical and futuristic
research and scooted into the realm of reality, they get
closer and closer to defining alternative news as a element of
enemy tactics. So it's not really all that far
off if you extrapolate this a little bit, where alternative
news that doesn't go along with the conventional narrative,
especially if it were to affect something going on in a war
significantly enough, then that news could be defined as an
element of an enemy of enemy attack because you're
cognitively changing the viewpoints of the population.
So in other words, the question becomes at what point do
alternative news outlets become defined as enemy combatants?
And that's a pretty chilling thing to consider.
Now we'll we'll move forward here a little more.
Is it really so fictional? This next slide asked that
question, not so fictional question.
Here's another study. Cognitive warfare.
In 2024, NATO's Allied Command Transformation, and This Is Real
was tasked with developing A comprehensive cognitive war
concept to be finalised in late 2024.
So there's some reality to this and the next slide goes on to
explain a little more and the the source of this is The Three
Swords, a magazine by a specialised native warfare
centre in its infancy. This article claims to raise
awareness of a new NATO concept that's supposedly in its infancy
but will have a major impact on individuals, groups, societies
and the way future wars are fought.
So this is an interesting evolving thing to be sure.
One of the main goals is to break social cohesion.
This also comes from that report that I just showed that is
showing this to be a more real, real concept.
Cognitive warfare, it says, is a structured approach to target
the cognition of individuals, groups and societies to affect
their decision making processes and ultimately their behaviour.
It would mean propaganda. It would mean using AI more
heavily, things like that. While cognitive effects are not
typically measurable, they do affect how we think, feel and
act. Using brain centred technologies
that aim to destabilise structures, create distrust.
And I put emphasis on this and fracture and break social
cohesion. And what's really interesting in
my opinion before we look at this last slide is that if you
think about television, if you think about even things in
academia, especially television, elements of cognitive warfare
have been going on for a very long time because the mass media
cartel, the conventional news system, it does seek to break
social cohesion. Look at BBC's field operations
that you and Brian have talked about.
It undermines the culture, it undermines society.
So NATO is talking about this through its allied command
transformation. They're talking about it as if
all of this might come from China or Russia, and the
democratic societies that NATO seeks to protect would be on the
receiving end of this. That's largely what the
discussion is about. But we all know that the best
offence is a good or the best defence is a good offence
rather, and therefore NATO is going to practise the very
things that it condemns. They're going to use cognitive
warfare. In fact, they already are
against who they perceive to be the enemy, just as if they just
as they say, China and Russia will use it against Western
nations and NATO nations. Lastly, adding even more reality
to this, let's show this last slide.
The National Library of Medicine under the US National Institutes
of Health is talking about this as as it's becoming much more of
a reality and its applicability to political science.
The headline of this study from the Frontiers and big data being
Cognitive warfare, a conceptual analysis of the NATO Allied
Command transformation cognitive warfare exploratory concept
published just last November. And so it's fast becoming a
reality, even though parts of it are hypothetical for now, but
they're really trying to be omnipresent, you might say
omniscient in terms of monitoring people, surveilling
people and looking at undermining entire societies and
actually backing away from kinetic warfare.
That's what I'm hearing. There'd be less bombs and
missiles and more challenging the the the thinking and the
societal structure of the so called enemy.
So it's a it's a long term issue.
I wanted to get it out today, Mike.
Naturally, I'll return to this sometime at times and probably
do an article on it as well. So back to you.
Thank you, Mark. And what I would say to this is
we need to talk about this an extra, but I would just make the
suggestion that in fact, this is this type of these types of
reports suggesting that this type of warfare is somehow
something theoretical are there and are promoted in order to
pursue the idea in people's minds that they are still
theoretical. I think if we look at what
happened during COVID, if we look at the deployment of the of
the behavioural insights team and, and their types of
operations, this is cognitive warfare that we are
experiencing. We are experiencing that every
day of our lives at the moment. And NATO can busy accuse, can be
busy accusing Russia and China of this and of doing this on our
population. NATO is doing this on its own
population. And I think that is absolutely
demonstrable. We'll talk about more a little
bit more about that in extra now.
Let's move on then, to Will Colesel and his latest report on
the Paloma Shamrani inquest. Hello, this is Will Coles with
Reporting for UK column on what I believe is now the 8th day of
the Paloma Shamarani inquest. Here at Kent and Medway
Coroner's Court today we've seen a huge amount of evidence with
three days of testimony this week.
This is a case still getting widespread mainstream media
attention and I remain the only independent journalist down here
covering the case. In all, this case breaks down to
three main questions, on most of which the coroner is likely to
find A of course, the final calls of Paloma Shamarani's
death. B whether Paloma had competence
to make her own decisions and choose alternative therapies,
which has been centre of much of the mainstream media framing of
the narrative, and the accusation of Paloma's brother
that their mother killed Paloma. And finally, see what led Paloma
to go down the route of alternative therapy and whether
her treatment at the Mainstone Hospital under Doctor Mohan was
what pushed her in that direction.
I've also spoken to Simone Platt, who despite being denied
her testimony in court, has been down here observing every day
and who Paloma called Auntie and saw at least every week roughly
until her death. In terms of the final cause of
Paloma's death, it's looking ever more likely that the
coroner will rule in favour of the media Stein or Mass, leading
to a blockage of the Airways. We've seen accusations that
adrenaline help to spur on her death.
However, the paramedics and also the air ambulance doctor
testifying today made very clear that they did not believe that
adrenaline was the cause of death and seemed entirely united
in their approach. Despite Katie Morani putting
forth evidence of pink frothing at the mouth, which she says is
in line with an overdose of adrenaline.
Much has also been made of the U12 plus dose of adrenaline
given to Paloma despite a very slight weight and the fact that
this dose is uniform for all ages and the body weights over
12 years old. In terms of competence, we had a
shocking revelation yesterday from the coroner who said during
a very fractious moment, I have no doubt for the evidence that
I've heard the Paloma high capacity and I believe that I
will be finding that in due course.
We've seen overwhelming evidence in favour of Paloma's
competence, whether her written statements, whether the
testimony of I believe 4 doctors now in the court and also the
testimony of family members. I spoke to Simone Platt on this
matter. Loma and I, during that period
of her illness, became very, very close.
She called me auntie and she confided in me and we became
very, very close. And so was she competent to make
her own decisions by your own estimation?
Absolutely. She would research, look into
things, She would look at books, she would look in Internet,
she'd look at research papers, she'd look at all sorts of
things and did a great deal of research into her, her illness,
her diagnosis, tests she was going to have what her blood
tests and other tests meant. She was really on the ball.
From this it seems almost certain that the narrative of
the mainstream media has been debunked.
The question at the centre of this mainstream media storm
seems to have been answered. In fact, it seems to have been
answered so strongly that the coroner has pre announced her
decision. Despite this, mainstream media
interest is continuing and mainstream media organisations
including the BBC, ITV and PA Media have pushed for different
evidence in the case to be released to the public.
Now the two pieces of evidence that were considered as a final
decision today. The final rulings were the 999
call where Paloma had collapsed and Keisha Morani was on the
phone to the ambulance crew and a thoroughly, thoroughly
distressing piece of evidence which I heard in court the other
day. And also the voice note between
Keisha Morani and the ex boyfriend or boyfriend at the
time and a Harris when Paloma was first ill in December 2023.
In terms of the 999 call, the coroner ruled that due to the
right to privacy and the distressing and intimate nature
of the call that it should not be given out to the press and
should not be given out to the public.
I've heard this call myself and it is deeply, deeply disturbing.
I saw at least one member in the of the court weeping.
In terms of voice note from December 2023 with Kate Shimrani
instructing the then boyfriend and the Harris to bring Paloma
to her house. I don't believe this is going to
be of significant note, but I believe the mainstream media
will still try and capitalise on this.
The final point on which we have not touched is how Paloma came
to her decision despite her competence and whether Paloma
was pushed into making a decision because of her
treatment at the Maidstone Hospital where there seems to be
significant evidence to show that she was given treatment
without her consent, both from her testimonies and that of her
mother and also other family members and friends.
Keisha Marani has also alleged that one of the drugs given
rispirocates is not licenced to be used as a stand alone
treatment, meaning Paloma should have consented to chemotherapy
before this drug was given. In particular, we returned to
Doctor Mohan, who I covered on the first day of the hearing and
who left the country seemingly the next day.
I think it made a massive difference.
She initially wanted to go home and think about it, but when she
became incredibly ill literally within days of well, within
hours of, of reaching home after her leaving hospital and then
all sorts of things going wrong in terms of, you know, hair
falling out, her feeling really unwell, vomiting, really, really
unwell. Yet she'd been well enough to
fly to Sweden and back from Sweden just days earlier, before
she'd been to Maidstone Hospital.
She knew that drugs she'd been given had been misdescribed.
I mean, there was a particular thing about a giving set.
This is one of these bags with saline in, and there was a label
on it and she'd been told it was saline flush.
And it turned out it had a label on it, had a drug, a medicine in
it that she hadn't been told about.
So she became very, very suspicious and nervous of that
hospital and didn't want to go back there.
There are questions to be asked about the conduct, informed
consent and the NHS and it will be interesting to see whether
the coroner eventually rules on those.
We have one further date for court which is the 27th of
August and we now have a provisional date for a ruling
the 3rd of September. Remain peeled.
We'll continue covering this is will Cultural reporting for UK
column. So thanks very much to Will for
that and we will keep you posted as things develop.
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So please do pick up those tickets as soon as you can
because there are not many left tonight at 7:00 PM.
Charles and I are speaking to Germ as we usually do on a
Friday. So that's at 7:00.
Please have a look for that. We're looking at Empire in
particular. And Sandy's interview with,
with, with Peter Taylor has went out yesterday at 1:00 PM.
That's on the UK column website. Now if you haven't seen that,
Vanessa, very briefly, we're you've been writing extensively
over the last few weeks. We're creating a new section on
the website called Syria Centric Regional Analysis.
Just very briefly, any thoughts on that?
Yeah, we're just going to bring together a number of regional
analysts and myself included, and we'll be bringing analysis
not only from Syria, but very much with Syria as the hub
radiating out into the entire West Asia region.
OK, super. Thank you for that.
Now let's move on to online safety.
We've been talking about that extensively over the last few
weeks, over the last few years, but particularly in the last few
weeks as the regime begins to roll out.
And well, I just want to draw your attention to the Open
Rights Group which has published a page entitled Blocked, which
lists websites which have either shut down or have been Geo
blocked or have imposed age restrictions as a result of the
Online Safety Act. Now some of these sites won't be
missed by some people because they're not that interesting,
but that's neither here nor there.
Many of the sites on here will be missed by people.
It should be noted that these are all user reported.
And so there may be a few which you know where it says it's
blocked, but which you may not find.
You may not find a block in place because maybe your IP
address isn't recognised as auk address for various reasons, but
nonetheless they are sites that many have reported.
And if we just run through this, little gives you an idea of how
many sites that are being discussed here already and you
know lots of them. Now this is developing page and
of course this is exactly the effect that the UK regime wants
to see. And what I would say is that
following on from Wikipedia's attempt to deal with its own
problems with the legislation that I was talking about on
Wednesday's news programme, quite a number of people are
calling on Wikipedia to effectively join the list of
people that are Geo blocking Wikipedia and go dark in the
United Kingdom. I think the problem is that I
don't think Wikipedia is trying to take any action which would
undermine the ACT in the way that it took its legal action.
It's not in any way against the Act in principle.
I think it just wants to make sure that it is OK.
So I think that sadly it's unlikely that they would take
that action. But frankly, if they did take
it, that would of course massively raise the general
awareness of the situation in the population.
Now at at the back of this, of course, is at the back of this
is the fact that this is just the first of the Online Safety
Acts provisions to be implemented and that's age
verification, otherwise known as digital ID.
And Cory Doctorow here offers an excellent overview of the
situation. Now the link, as with all the
links will be in the show notes. He takes apart the Starmer
regime's claim that it's possible to do age verification
and at the same time to maintain individual privacy.
And remember that this current regime sees platforms using
quite a number of different, so called age assurance providers,
meaning that individuals wanting to use platforms are going to
have to send their personal data to an ever widening range of
companies. We're sharing that with, well,
with whom? Because we don't actually know.
And Doctor O concludes that to quote them a little bit here,
age verification is an impossibility and an impossibly
terrible idea with an impossibly vast array of consequences for
privacy and the open web. Now as the.
Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, wrote in June following
a court hearing in the United States or a court ruling that no
person, adult or child, has a First Amendment right to access
speech that is obscene to minors without first submitting proof
of age. They went on to say that a
person who submits identifying information online can never be
sure if websites will keep that information or how that
information will be used or disclosed.
This leaves users highly vulnerable to data breaches and
other security harms. So the question is what's going
on here? And state this once again, this
has got nothing to do with protecting children.
It's about two things, censorship and intelligence
gathering. The censorship aspect we're all
familiar with and we should be familiar with the use of social
media for intelligence gathering as well.
But of course that's hard if people are able to use social
media relatively anonymously. It's hard to to use social media
as as an intelligence gathering operation while we're able to
use it anonymously. That is.
So nonetheless, we should be fully aware by now of the scale
of the state spying operation here in the UK, but for anybody
in the in other countries in the EU or the US, they're not too
far behind. So this is just one aspect of
the digital prison we're now accepting as a matter of
convenience. Now, let's just mention Karen
Bradley here and this letter to her from Diane Johnson, who's
the Minister of State for Policing and Crime Prevention,
who said in here that and that Karen Bradley had asked about
current plans to build police capability for using social
media intelligence at force and national levels.
And the fact that they were carefully considering
recommendations made and that they were talking about as
they're in fact building a national Internet intelligence
investigations team as part of the National Police Coordination
Centre. So this is just another example
of the type of infrastructure that's been built to spy on us.
But of course, the key thing here is they want to be able to
identify individuals that they're spying on.
Now, in related news, we we're all pleased, we're pleased to
let you know that I'm sure you're excited about it, that AI
is going to be used to help catch, help the police catch
criminals. So the British regime is rolling
out this next stage of its pre crime infrastructure because
criminals hell bent on making others lives a misery they say
face being stopped before they can strike through the cutting
edge mapping technology supported by a that AI.
That's according to Peter Kyle. The press release says that
innovators have been tasked with developing A detailed, real time
and interactive crime map that spans England and Wales and can
detect, tract and depict and predict where a devastating
knife crime is likely to occur or spot early warning signs of
antisocial behaviour before it spirals out of control, giving
police the Intel they need to step in and keep the public
safe. They say that it will be rooted
in advanced AI that will examine how to bring together data
shared between police, councils and social services, including
criminal records, previous incident locations and
behavioural patterns of known offenders.
And they're, they've announced they're going to set up
something called the Concentrations of Crime Data
Challenge, which will set a quotes clear and measurable
target corporate, corporate and university teams as part of this
regime's £500 million research and development missions
accelerator programme. So they're going to, so the
question is, how are they going to do this?
Well, they're going to build more data centres, of course.
And but don't worry because as Charles reported on Wednesday,
we can offset the water wasted cooling these data centres and
our data prison by deleting a few emails.
So there we go. If you remember what it said
here, delete all the emails and pictures as data centres require
vast amounts of water to cool their systems.
And then finally, on this topic then there's been much fanfare
across mainstream media that sorry that pornography websites
have been seeing viewing figures fall significantly since the age
verification regime came into force.
Now of course, that fact itself is unverified.
The data seems to be coming from a third party and doesn't seem
to take into account the massive growth in VPN usage which has
happened in parallel since this regime has been rolled out.
So traffic appearing to come from the UK may appear to have
fallen, it undoubtedly has. But traffic to these sites, The
question is, has it fallen across the board?
I think probably not. The people who use websites such
as this will not stop using them.
They're going to find another way.
And VPNs, of course, is the most obvious choice.
So anyway, we'll leave that topic there for now and go back
to international news. And Vanessa, what's been going
on with Iran? Yeah, interesting developments.
Of course. We saw at the end of Marwa's
video that she said that one of the tactics of the resistance
factions in Lebanon would be to reach out to their allies in the
region. And I just wanted to include
this article written by a new writer for UK column very much
from the region, Ibrahim Majid, who's writing about on on a bi
weekly basis on the situation in the region, talking about the
regional disarmament of any forces, whether resistance or
actual military that may present a threat to Israel now or in the
next century basically. So there is a concerted effort
by Israel to wipe out any potential threat to the security
of Israel during its expansionist programme.
So basically what we've seen is the Iran security chief has been
visiting both Iraq and Lebanon. He was in Baghdad for talks on
the next phase of the resistance axis.
And this is because there are moves by Washington and Israel
also to disarm what is perceived to be the resistance factions in
Iraq itself. Nor Al Maliki, the former Prime
Minister of Iraq, put out a very strong statement saying that we
agreed in the meeting with Lajarani that Iran and Iraq
would refuse to disarm Hezbollah, all the Popular
Mobilisation forces in Iraq. Of course the PMF does come
under the governance of the Iraqi military.
He also said had it not been for the PMF, of course, the
Americans would would have swallowed Iraq.
And the same could be sad if Hezbollah is eradicated in
Lebanon. Now in Lebanon as a result of
some of the statements from the Iranian foreign minister and
other diplomats, members of the opposition to the resistance.
In other words, those that are aligned with Israel, like Jamail
demands the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador, says
Tehran's guardianship is over, which is kind of extraordinary
as they're accepting diktats from Israel, Washington and
Saudi Arabia. So there's a little bit of
hypocrisy, to put it mildly there.
And then let's say what Ali Lejrani said, the new security
chief from Iran, when he was in Lebanon, he was diplomatically
very blunt. So he said Lebanon should be
strong and independent, not take orders from across the oceans.
Those who interfere in Lebanon's affairs are imposing plans and
deadlines. And he's absolutely correct on
this because the deadlines for the resistance disarmament is,
of course, coming from Israel and Washington, not necessarily
from the Lebanese government. He also went on to say in
coordination with President Allen of Lebanon, Iran wishes to
strengthen its relations with the Lebanese state and people at
all levels. So he's making a very clear
point here. I commend President Allen.
Sorry, I misspelt that or it was spell checked wrongly for
reinforcing national unity and unifying ranks within all
Lebanese sects. So while this is a very
diplomatic message, I think it's it's palpably clear.
And the head of Hezbollah has also made a very clear statement
yesterday on the fact that Hezbollah will resist
disarmament with with everything they possibly can.
Sorry, just another mention of Syria centric regional analysis,
which is going to be a new section on UK column covering
analysis on the region and focusing very much on on the
whole of West Asia. But I wanted to today look at
what's been going on in Syria. There's a recent article that
was published yesterday at UK column by myself.
Syria prey to the globalist Kabal and crony capitalist Al
Qaeda regime. Effectively what we're seeing
now in Syria is very much what happened in Iraq and of course
elsewhere. It's standard procedure after
USUK LED disintegration of a country and and destruction of
its sovereignty. We're seeing crony capitalism
come to the fore. They supply or or what we've
been seeing since May through July and August are the
creations of memorandums of understandings with companies
that I demonstrate in the article to be very shady.
Many of them front companies or shell companies without the
financial wherewithal to actually follow through on the
pledges. So of course, what we're
actually seeing is the attempt to bring money in through
corruption and crony capitalism in Syria, which is going to line
the pockets of Washington, their elected regime, which at the
moment is the Al Qaeda corrupt regime that has for years been
syphoning off both gold and finances and wealth from inside
Syria, even when it only contained or or controlled
Idlib. Now, of course, it's being done
on a much larger scale. So I just want to go into some
depth. It's all in the article.
People can go and read that. But just some examples from what
has been going on, the companies involved.
So if I could just have the slide after this one, if
possible. These are a couple of the
companies. So the memorandums of
understandings and some of the dodgier companies that were
involved. So from the UAE, 2 billion
apparently has been invested in the Damascus metro 26.5
kilometres 17 stations. One wonders why right now that
people have no electricity, no water, Are they being expected
to celebrate the the creation of an underground metro?
Jordan 17,000,000 for a luxury hotel complex in Deir Ezzor.
Aleppo 25,000,000 for a commercial complex.
Ubarco, a company from Italy that has pledged 2.5 billion for
Damascus Towers project and Polydeath recycling and
sustainability project. Now just leave that on the
screen for a second, if you can, Mike, because I particularly
wanted to point out, so the Damascus Towers project, which
is the 2.5 billion. So that's 20,000 apartments, 25
floors each, 60 towers. Now the company Ubacco, which is
based in Italy, was founded in April 2022 with a capital of
€16,000 and an annual revenue of 209,000.
So clearly not capable of fulfilling that pledge.
And then if we look at Polydeath 2021, it was a hardware company
which was dissolved 2 years ago in on the 25th of July re
established itself claiming to be specialised in aviation.
Now all of these companies are of course going to need external
financing, which is where this familiar money laundering is
going to come in. And I wanted to mention at the
same time that while all of this is going on, this grotesque
spectacle that Jolani and Tom Barrack are providing for the
Syrian people, of course, yesterday I met with refugees
from Sweda. Again.
I've written extensively about that for UK column and reported
on it, The massacre led by Jolani's HTS forces and his
tribal faction proxies. I met with a number of refugees,
Venezuelan Druze that have been effectively evacuated by the
Venezuela embassy here, brought to Lebanon.
And so while Jolani, Tombaric, Washington, Saudi Arabia, Qatar,
Turkey are providing this absolutely fraudulent spectacle
of some kind of investment into a a dying sovereign Syria that
is going to be debt enslaved, the stories I heard of Jolani's
forces were horrific and reminiscent, of course, those
that I heard back in 20/12/2013. For example, children were seen
to be carried out of their houses, including babies.
They prepared boiling water. The children were murdered by
putting them into boiling water. Children were slaughtered in
front of their parents if the parents didn't have the money to
pay HTS. Women were abducted or raped on
the spot and then murdered. The desecration of properties,
of tombs, of shrines, of entire villages that were razed to the
ground. So while all of this is ongoing,
this this unbelievable theatre of bloodshed is being conducted
by by Washington and the UK. We can't forget that the MI 6
linked operatives are in the presidential palace grooming
Jolani's administration to to change their image for for the
public. Meanwhile, the bloodshed
continues in Syria. People have no money.
They're living through the most desperate poverty that they've
ever seen, and corruption now is within a shadow state.
There is no accountability whatsoever for Jolani's regime.
And of course they're syphoning out the wealth because they know
that they're not going to be permanent.
So Syria is effectively being raped and pillaged on every
single level. Vanessa, I can't say thank you
for that report because that was quite harrowing in in many ways.
But you know that I just want to, I just like to address
something that was being said in the chat box there while you
were speaking. And that was that somebody was
saying, well, this is international news.
This is not British. It's the UK column.
Why aren't you covering more British stuff?
And, and my point, Vanessa, is I'd be interested in your
thoughts on this. This is British news because
these are puppets of the British regime and therefore this is our
responsibility in my opinion, and I just wanted to get your
thoughts on that. I find it rather just depressing
that someone from Britain is saying, well, this isn't British
news when the British regime is responsible for what is now
happening in the region and has been responsible for more than a
century. So I think we need to wake up to
the fact that our regime in Britain is utterly responsible
for the bloodshed that is now happening and that bloodshed is
not going to be contained in Syria because the British are
sponsoring the Tak fairy elements that are conducting
these atrocious These are trustees against the Syrian
people. And where are these Tak fairies
going to go in the end? Where are they going to go?
They're going to come back to the UK, to the EU, to the US and
you'll be facing them. So it is a British problem.
Yes, yes, I mean, I don't think it was a suggestion that that it
wasn't. Well, anyway, we'll talk about
more in extra because because that that is a really it is a
really interesting and important point to make.
So, you know, thanks to thanks for the comment because it's
going to start an interesting conversation.
Let me let's let's finish off today.
Coming back to Mark then and Mark some health related news.
Absolutely. Mike, if I may make a
suggestion, we can show one of the two videos now and the other
one an extra, unless you want to do differently.
But this first slide that I got here is from a kind of centrist
political organisation called Veer in We're in Switzerland.
The headline is from their website interview unnoticed by
the public, but it's getting more protest.
Switzerland is operating the only who WHO bio laboratory.
And I think from there we can go with the first primary video
that explains the basis of this and what people are protesting.
It has to do with the space laboratory and people's
perceptions of what they're doing there.
So let's show that first video if we can do that.
A lab leak in Switzerland will be a major problem not just here
in Switzerland but around the world.
The Biohub PSL lab for earring Spiets Canton Byrne is being
facilitated as a dual used gain of function facility for the
World Health Organisation and there is no oversight by the
Swiss government. Who has the oversight?
Who knows what's going on up there?
They don't have any transparency, so people are
awakening and they want to know what's going on in their lab.
My name is Christian Osh. I'm the president of the Swiss
association Veer. I grow up here in the hills and
the Bernie's overland. We're not out of touch.
We're really connected to nature and that makes us realise how
much freedom really means to us. And we do everything possible to
maintain our freedom, our sovereignty and especially our
neutrality of Switzerland. The Swiss government is now
allowing bio weapons on Swiss soil.
And when more people find out the beautiful Swiss country, the
Swiss flag, the Swiss chocolate, the Swiss cheese, it's extremely
naive because Switzerland has been occupied.
It acts like the operation centre for a lot of their
wrongdoings worldwide. And it is the Swiss Federal
Council that is responsible for what's happening here in
Switzerland, with obviously the diplomatic immunity for all
these organisations that are causing a lot of havoc right
now. I would say it's evil.
And the Swiss government needs to stop the allowance for this
to continue on here in Switzerland.
I believe that we need to revoke diplomatic immunity for the
World Health Organisation and we need to invoke the spirit of the
Swiss people for sovereignty, neutrality and freedom.
Very interesting. Of course, it's worth noting,
Mike, that there are different schools of thought and gain of
function. Some consider viruses to be
inert, just chaff, biological chaff, you might say.
Others question the very existence of viruses.
And say bacterial agents are more of a threat.
At any rate, there's considerable concern among the
Swiss people. The other video has to do with
what Telsey Gabbard has to say about the broader health
situation with regards to some of this.
And I think I can basically conclude today and we can carry
on into extra a little if we can, but let's remind ourselves
too that and we can show the slide if you'd like, Mike, that
exercise Pegasus is getting pretty imminent here, a tier one
exercise to take place between September and November this
year. One thing that's mentioned in
this slide that I didn't mention three weeks ago when I first
reported on Exercise Pegasus and will it mirror exercise
sickness? I believe that was before for
the COVID pandemic. There's a local resilience
forum, several local resilience forums, and I believe the next
slide after this mentions that and the resilience forums, the
listing, and we can put this in the show notes.
The listing provides lots of email addresses and the
resilience forums are made up of local authorities, emergency
services, local public services, the Environment Agency.
So it provides a lot of contacts and email addresses at this
website, auk government website that would enable concerned
citizens who watch UK column to contact these people and get
involved and ask lots of questions.
That's the most important thing at this point.
And we can talk later about a special designation that the UK
got from The Who that facilitates exercise Pegasus in
my opinion and related matters. But at any rate, Mike, Mark
maybe go. Ahead, go ahead and mention this
because I think this is important.
So go ahead and tell us a little bit more about this.
Yeah, this just came up. On August 7th, The Who
officially designated not only Health Canada and not only a
ministry in Japan Health, Labour and Welfare, but also the UK's
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory agency, or
MHRA, as WHO listed authorities. WL as World Health Organisation
listed Authorities, a status granted to national authorities
that meet the highest international regulatory
standards for medical products. With these latest designations,
The Who expands the growing list of these WL as now involving 39
agencies across the world supporting faster and broader
access to quality assured medical products, particularly
in low and middle income countries.
What that really means is they want to make sure that any
country, rich or poor, especially poorer ones, are
markets for vaccines and mRNA technology, mRNA injections,
which goes along with what James Roguski has been saying, you
know, to, to get access worldwide and establish regional
centres worldwide to make sure that no, no arm is left
unjabbed. You might say, if possible, when
they possibly declare the next pandemic.
And when you look at Exercise Pegasus and precedence to that
and the President in the US to the COVID pandemic, which is
event two O 1, will these drills become real?
And then what would another crackdown ensue?
And what those crack, would those crackdowns be even worse
than before? So this is a time to be super
vigilant in the UK and beyond. So that should do it for now.
Yeah, thank you very much for that, Mark.
Thank you and thank you to Vanessa.
We got to leave the news programme there for today.
Join us if you're UK column member for some UK called News
Extra in a couple of minutes. But I keep totally confused by
the fact that Vanessa's on today because Patrick and Vanessa
swapped where Patrick goes to the Beautiful Days festival this
week. So it is Friday and hope
everyone has a great weekend. Join us for extra if you can,
but otherwise we'll see you at 1:00 PM as usual on Monday.
See you then.